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Nina’s Monthly status report for April’23
by Nina 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi! Below is my report for April 2023. In April, I resolved 759 tickets, which is 200 more than in March: On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 556 On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 203 Additionally, I also resolved some tickets on WhatsApp (+447421000612) and Signal (+17787431312). The majority of the tickets I deal with are related to censorship circumvention and issues that happen around it, like using VPN and bridges simultaneously or incorrect use of the bridges. Another often issue I deal with is Tor Browser and antiviruses. During the internet shutdown in Kazakhstan, I helped with the translation of the Twitter post related to the situation [1] I also communicated with users a lot, gathering feedback on different pluggable transports and the work of our services. [1] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1645868260624306176

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, April 2023
by rhatto 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for April 2023 with the main activities I have done during the period. ## 0. Research * Onion Plan session in Costa Rica: * Slides and notes: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-… * Issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionplan/-/issues/7 * I'd like to thank everyone that attended the session and also those who gave valuable feedback :) * Onion Plan updates: while preparing to the session, I made a number of updates, but there's still many things in the TODO list. * Website: https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionplan/ * Recent changes: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionplan/activity * Onion-Location: problems and fixes session in Costa Rica: * Helped with note taking and with the discussion: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-… ## 1. Development * Onionprobe: 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 releases: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/blob/main/Cha… * Helped with the internal Security Policy Session at the Tor In-person meeting. ## 2. Support * For the Community Day in Costa Rica, * I helped writing the `cebollitas` project, with some small Onion Services examples currently based on Docker: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/cebollitas * We had a nice workshop about setting up Onion Services and we did a small exercise about how a very basic distributed chat system could work. It was just people writing messages on HTML files and refreshing each other Onion Service tabs on their browsers, but was enough to teach the mechanics and let people know how the technology can easily enable them to send content without having to run a centralized service. * We collected feedback about how to improve the workshop and also how deploying and developing system with Onion Services technology could be made easier. ## 3. Organization Time spent (from the total available for Tor-related work): | Category | Percentage |---------------|------------ | Research | 19 | Development | 7 | Support | 17 | Organization | 57 |---------------|------------ | Total | 100 (Despite lot's of research, development and support, the Costa Rica meeting made me track most of my time as "organization" work). -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Job Opening: OONI Project Manager
by Maria Xynou 03 May '23

03 May '23

Hello, I'm excited to share that we're hiring! The OONI team (a non-profit fighting internet censorship) is looking for a dedicated *project manager* to help us manage our software development work. *Information about the job description, qualification requirements, and how to apply* is available here: https://ooni.org/post/2023-job-opening-ooni-project-manager/ Born in 2012, OONI builds free software (OONI Probe) that enables anyone to detect and collect evidence of internet censorship. With more than 100k installs, OONI Probe is run in more than 160 countries every month. To increase transparency of internet censorship, we publish censorship measurements as open data in near real-time. This data supports research and advocacy efforts investigating and fighting internet censorship worldwide. By joining our team, you will help manage our software development work, supporting a global community measuring internet censorship. This is a *full-time 12-month contract position* (which may be extended), starting ASAP. This is a *fully remote position*. We encourage applications from anywhere in the world! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Please spread the word ( https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1653444903462895631) and help us find someone who can best serve the internet freedom community! Thank you, OONI team.

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, April 2023
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hi everyone! Here is my status report for April 2023. At the beginning of the month, Mullvad Browser was released 🎉️! So, I answered several technical questions about it and reviewed some of the issues we received. I also solved some quick ones. Also, I rebased both Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser to 102.10esr and created the first 12.5 alpha branch for Mullvad Browser. I was the second builder for Tor Browser 12.5a5, which made us find another DMG reproducibility problem [0]. A merge request to fix it is pending review. Another task was continuing with some Torbutton refactors. I want to move the code out of the big legacy commit and refactor it. I created a first merge request that targets the first 13.0 branch for the changes on the domain isolator/new circuit button [1]. However, I am pausing the refactor to focus again on upstreaming patches [2]. In a week, Firefox 115 is going to Nightly, and we are starting the ESR rebase for 13.0. This will give us two additional months to work on it, for a total of 5 months before 102 goes EOL. I think I will spend this month on this. Finally, last week I was at the Costa Rica in-person meeting [3]. Best, Pier [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41737 [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40789 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-…

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